Chapter 726: A Great Victory
The 36,000 young and strong soldiers who had lost the battle reflexively pursued from the flight, and Feng Quan led the main force with almost no damage, and quickly divided into six troops to pursue and collect the defeated troops.
The pursuit lasted until the second half of the night, when Feng Quan set up camp in a village fifty miles away, and ordered the people who came up from the rear to clean up the battlefield.
Then send a messenger to report to Kong Youxu and Kagoshima, as well as to the Huaxia Army.
At noon the next day, Feng Quan gathered all his troops, cleaned up the battlefield, and continued to drive towards Kumamoto County.
The 4,000 newly recruited young men in the rear, known as the militia, quickly transported the battlefield materials to Kagoshima Prefecture with 6,000 people.
In this battle, Feng Quan's artillery lost 300 people, and 28 cannons were destroyed, of which six were nine-pounderers, three were twelve-pounderers, and the others were six-pounder and three-pounder guns.
The main force of 4,000 soldiers and horses suffered 150 casualties, the militia suffered 2,000 casualties, and the young and strong men suffered 12,000 casualties.
And 26,000 of the enemy were killed, 13,000 were peasants, and 70,000 of the enemy were taken prisoner, of which 40,000 were peasants and the people nearby, and the rest fled, but won a great victory.
Sixty-eight artillery pieces were captured alone, and of course these cannons were scrap metal in Feng Quan's eyes.
The enemy's front-loading flintlock pistols captured 100 shots, the Jingai-2 arquebus captured 10,000 guns, the Jingai-1 arquebus captured 20,000 guns, other shotguns, muskets, and the Japanese called iron cannons captured 28,000 guns, as well as a large number of kitchen knives, spears, broadswords, and even more.
More than 10,000 quintals of grain and grass were captured, which is better than nothing, and it is not enough for those captives to consume.
When the army arrived at Kumamoto Prefecture with its captives, the artillery bombarded it several times, and the garrison fled wherever it was.
Feng Quan ordered the army to rest in Kumamoto Prefecture.
The militia that performed well this time was replenished to the regular troops, and 3,000 soldiers and horses were replenished at once, and 7,000 soldiers and horses were gathered at once, and then they were trained in cooperation with the regular army in three days.
7,000 soldiers and horses, of which 5,500 soldiers and horses were regular troops, 500 soldiers and horses were added to the artillery, and 1,000 soldiers and horses were responsible for escorting grain and grass.
The remaining 16,000 young men who had experienced the war were given the captured Jingaier arquebuses, and the militia was expanded, with 2,000 stationed in the county town and 3,000 divided into five branches to be stationed in various places, and to sweep and search for the fleeing farmers.
The remaining 12,000 soldiers and horses continued to follow the army and were issued with 1 arquebus.
Feng Quan led the army towards Miyazaki Prefecture.
Where are the 5,000 soldiers and horses of General Miyazaki Daimyo.
The two sides fought in Miyazaki Prefecture for an afternoon, and then General Miyazaki Daimyo was captured, and Feng Quan captured another 3,000 enemy soldiers, and more than 10,000 farmers who dared to follow General Miyazaki to resist.
Left 5,000 soldiers and horses to garrison and sweep Miyazaki Prefecture.
With 14,000 soldiers and horses, plus 10,000 troops recruited, Feng Quan headed forward.
Go and rescue Oita County.
Where 30,000 young men are guarding the two county seats.
After seven days of fighting, the enemy's troops led by General Oita Daimyo reached 60,000 troops, 60,000 farmers, 30,000 young men and 15,000 soldiers and horses in each county town, and it was good to be able to hold on for seven days without falling, Feng Quan was very happy, if this battle was won, he would be able to harvest at least 3,000 combatable soldiers, these are experienced veterans who have experienced bloody battles.
Entering Oita Prefecture at dusk, Kong Youxing sent 10,000 young men and 2,000 soldiers and horses to meet him, and this was the first time he went to report the news, Kong Youxing sent a letter telling him that he would support his troops.
Feng Quan now had 36,000 troops, followed by 8,000 peasants and 500 soldiers guarding them.
There will be 500 soldiers from Miyazaki Prefecture, with 2,000 farmers.
Slightly more troops than the first time he fought the enemy.
The enemy divided 10,000 soldiers and horses to fight him, Feng Quan did not hesitate, it took an hour to eat the enemy's 10,000 troops, the enemy retreated in a hurry, and actually fled with 50,000 soldiers and horses, Feng Quan continued to advance towards Oita County, and arrived at Oita County the next day.
This place has been broken by the enemy, 15,000 troops have all been annihilated, only 1,000 troops have been captured by the enemy, Feng Quan felt very disappointed, it seems that the enemy's combat effectiveness is still above these young men who have just been trained for a month, after understanding the situation, leaving 1,000 troops to defend the city, Feng Quan continued to chase the enemy with soldiers and horses.
The 200 Mongol cavalry almost broke up his group, but the 200 Mongol cavalry were all left behind.
Arrived at Beppu County in the evening, which is a small county town belonging to Oita County, Feng Quan defeated the enemy's three obstacles in a row, and successfully caught up with the enemy with a large army, the enemy did not fight with him at all, and continued to escape, Feng Quan chased overnight, the enemy's 60,000 soldiers and horses, lost 50,000 soldiers and horses, and only 10,000 soldiers and horses fled back to Fukuoka County.
Recovering the territory previously taken down by the enemy, Feng Quan saw that there were still 8,000 soldiers and horses here, it seems that this is not the place where the enemy is attacking, and the enemy's main force is still placed in Oita County.
Feng Quan left the wounded and 2,000 peasants, plus 2,000 young men and 1,000 militiamen, and transferred the 5,000 soldiers and horses who were not wounded here.
After three days of marching, they entered the territory of Saga County, and then sent a messenger to report to Kong Youxing, the two armies were flanked left and right, Fukuoka Daimyo, Nagasaki Daimyo, Kitakyushu Daimyo, Saga Daimyo, 120,000 soldiers and horses led by four people were flanked left and right, and more than half of them were lost in three days, and the battle ended with Nagasaki and Kitakyushu Shoguns killed in battle, and Saga and Fukuoka Shoguns fled.
After the two sides returned to the division, Feng Quan handed over the 30,000 soldiers and horses around him to Kong Youxing's command, and he only took 1,000 direct troops and 1,000 farmers to return to Kagoshima.
A few days later, the news of Kong's great victory came that he had recaptured the prefectures of Fukuoka and Kitakyushu, drove the enemy back to Chugoku Island, and annihilated 31,000 enemy troops, and the enemy Shogun Oita Daimyo and Fukuoka Shogun fled back to Chugoku Island with 30,000 soldiers and horses.
Feng Quan looked at the statistics, this time a total of 330,000 people on Kyushu Island were captured, 54,000 enemy soldiers and horses were captured, and 1,300 soldiers and horses on Shikoku Island were also captured, and 33 Mongolian cavalry of the Qing Dynasty were captured, completely eliminating the enemy's forces on Kyushu Island, and then the people on Kyushu Island should know who is their master.
After this battle, 130,000 of the 3 million Japanese people on Kyushu Island were killed and wounded, 330,000 were captured, and 20,000 criminals were troubled.
While guarding against the enemy's attack, Kong Youxing sent soldiers and horses to escort the captives back.
Feng Quan sent a letter to Zhang Qiang, how to deal with these captives and Diao people.
Zhang Qiang thought about it, He Jin said that Qiongzhou Island needs manpower to open mines, and the 10,000 hard laborers and 100,000 prisoners mobilized are in other places to open up wasteland, and they can't become the people who dig pits, so he waved his pen and sent 1,000 small warships and 300 merchant ships of the Yangtze River Garrison Division to Kagoshima, Japan.
It just so happened that Tian Xian and Li Yuanyin also captured thousands of Siamese tribe warriors united by Du Ge, and Tian Xian also fought a battle with Du Ge's team in Southeast Asia, and the forces that had just gathered lost a lot, but they also captured thousands of enemies, and that battle was a tragic victory.
In order to punish them, Tian Xian directly sent people to the port, loaded them onto ships, and escorted them to the mine under the escort of the Sixth Fleet sent by Nguyen Jin.
(End of chapter)